Welcome to EGM’s Weekly Wrap. Each Friday, we round up the biggest news stories from the past seven days, along with some of the smaller but still interesting developments that may have flown under the radar, all in one convenient place for you, our dear readers.

This week, Overwatch was accused of stealing from a man who steals for a living, the ESRB restated its intentions to protect children with the least amount of effort possible, and a group of students made it obvious as to why the U.S. is behind China in education.

Here’s a rundown of this week’s top stories and others you may have missed:

This Week’s Top Stories

Shenmue III‘s director confirmed that the game will have an open ending, in that players will be left wondering if Shenmue IV will have actual facial animations.

Following the reveal of Brigitte, Overwatch‘s new hero, Hi-Rez president Stewart Chisam suggested that Blizzard stole a Paladins character’s design, which is basically the video game equivalent of Carlos Mencia accusing Amy Schumer of stealing jokes.

Sega was forced to pull the demo for Yakuza 6: The Song of Life after discovering that some players were able to use the demo to unlock the full game. Instead, Sega suggested that players try any of the other Yakuza games, since they’re all essentially the same exact game.

In Other News…

A Twitch streamer received threats and doxxing attempts after saying that she murdered a dog, later claiming that she was “trolling” with her comments. Still, you can’t be that good of a person if other people actually believed you killed a dog, right?

Richard La Ruina, the star of dating advice simulator and built-in punchline Super Seducer, came under fire after issuing a DMCA takedown against a YouTuber who criticized his game. Apparently, having a really fragile ego and publicly displaying that fact on the internet is a great way to meet chicks.

Students won a bet that, if they could get over 6,000 retweets, their teacher would have to make their final exam about Fortnite. Unfortunately, everyone failed when the teacher made the test about Fortnite‘s Save the World mode, since no one’s ever played it.

Facebookpulled the demo for VR shooter Bullet Train from its Oculus Rift stations at the Conservative Political Action Conference in light of recent tragic shootings. Good to know that conservatives will draw the line on gun violence somewhere.

Amazon Alexa and Google Home recently addedPikachu Talk, an app that replaces those platforms’ AI with a virtual version of everyone’s favorite electrified rat. The app is perfect for those Pokémon fans who are so socially awkward that they don’t even like talking to fake versions of people.

About Michael Goroff

Michael Goroff has been gaming for almost three decades. He's a lover of all games and systems, but he mostly plays Xbox. That being said, if he's a fanboy, he's a fanboy for the game industry as a whole. Spit white-hot fanboy hate at him, trash talk his Gold II rank on Rocket League, or maybe just send him a cordial hello on Twitter @gogogoroff.

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Weekly Wrap: Sega gives it away, Paladins talks smack, and more!

Welcome to EGM's Weekly Wrap.

Welcome to EGM’s Weekly Wrap. Each Friday, we round up the biggest news stories from the past seven days, along with some of the smaller but still interesting developments that may have flown under the radar, all in one convenient place for you, our dear readers.

This week, Overwatch was accused of stealing from a man who steals for a living, the ESRB restated its intentions to protect children with the least amount of effort possible, and a group of students made it obvious as to why the U.S. is behind China in education.

Here’s a rundown of this week’s top stories and others you may have missed:

This Week’s Top Stories

Shenmue III‘s director confirmed that the game will have an open ending, in that players will be left wondering if Shenmue IV will have actual facial animations.

Following the reveal of Brigitte, Overwatch‘s new hero, Hi-Rez president Stewart Chisam suggested that Blizzard stole a Paladins character’s design, which is basically the video game equivalent of Carlos Mencia accusing Amy Schumer of stealing jokes.

Sega was forced to pull the demo for Yakuza 6: The Song of Life after discovering that some players were able to use the demo to unlock the full game. Instead, Sega suggested that players try any of the other Yakuza games, since they’re all essentially the same exact game.

In Other News…

A Twitch streamer received threats and doxxing attempts after saying that she murdered a dog, later claiming that she was “trolling” with her comments. Still, you can’t be that good of a person if other people actually believed you killed a dog, right?

Richard La Ruina, the star of dating advice simulator and built-in punchline Super Seducer, came under fire after issuing a DMCA takedown against a YouTuber who criticized his game. Apparently, having a really fragile ego and publicly displaying that fact on the internet is a great way to meet chicks.

Students won a bet that, if they could get over 6,000 retweets, their teacher would have to make their final exam about Fortnite. Unfortunately, everyone failed when the teacher made the test about Fortnite‘s Save the World mode, since no one’s ever played it.

Facebookpulled the demo for VR shooter Bullet Train from its Oculus Rift stations at the Conservative Political Action Conference in light of recent tragic shootings. Good to know that conservatives will draw the line on gun violence somewhere.

Amazon Alexa and Google Home recently addedPikachu Talk, an app that replaces those platforms’ AI with a virtual version of everyone’s favorite electrified rat. The app is perfect for those Pokémon fans who are so socially awkward that they don’t even like talking to fake versions of people.

About Michael Goroff

Michael Goroff has been gaming for almost three decades. He's a lover of all games and systems, but he mostly plays Xbox. That being said, if he's a fanboy, he's a fanboy for the game industry as a whole. Spit white-hot fanboy hate at him, trash talk his Gold II rank on Rocket League, or maybe just send him a cordial hello on Twitter @gogogoroff.